عنوان المقالة:استخدام بيانات SAR ذات القطبية المزدوجة للتحري عن بقايا التراث الثقافي في حصن الأخيضر جنوب غرب مدينة كربلاء ، العراق Using Dual Polarimetric SAR Data to Investigate the Cultural Heritage Remnants in Ukhaidir Fortress Southwest Karbala City, Iraq
Iraq is one of the countries that contain many important archaeological sites and manifestations of varied cultural heritage belonging to ancient civilizations, and several archaeological sites and cultural heritage are disappeared as a result of neglect. In this study, Synthetic Aperture Radar data was used to extract information regarding potential archaeological remains in Ukhaidir site, southwest of Karbala city, which is considered to be a good and new contribution in the field of archaeological sensors utility applied by space-borne radar. ALOS PALSAR (L-band) image was used to identify and detect the ground anomalies due to the presence of near-surface archaeological structures. Advanced image processing and classification were applied depending on the intensity bands (HH and HV) including texture analysis by application of the GLCM algorithm and unsupervised classification using the K-means algorithm to nominate potential archaeological sites. The results led us to identify twelve sites, seven of them were excluded because they were not covered and clearly visible in the recent high-resolution image and in the field observation, which appears as hills containing scattered stone remains and brick walls. The five sites nominated (P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5), were completely covered with loose sand, and its areas are ranging between 873-3774 km2 approximately. The sites P1 and P2 are located northeast of the fortress and P4 and P5 sites in the southwest, while P3 is located about 380 m in the southeast. Potentially, they might be represented remains of structures for houses or rooms used for military purposes or secret caches connected to the fortress through tunnels.
د. زيدون طه عبد الرزاق | Dr. Zaidoon Taha Abdulrazzaq | 10124